SETTING THE RECORD STRAIGHT (publ. 2/4/2015, pg. A4) A story about free online educational resources displacing textbooks incorrectly reported the location of Design Tech High charter school.The ...

It’s been a big few weeks for the movement to replace commercial textbooks with free online materials, thanks to the sudden rise of something called the Zero Textbook Cost degree. In June, 38 ...

Textbooks on shelves at the East Los Angeles College bookstore in East Los Angeles on March 9, 2023. Courtesy Pablo Unzueta/CalMatters. Lea este artículo en español. For the last decade Teague O’Shea ...

As the cost of college continues to increase, a growing number of University of South Carolina students may be able to save money by getting their textbooks for free. Free digital textbooks — which ...

You have /5 articles left. Sign up for a free account or log in. OpenStax, which launched earlier this year, is one of several publishers trying to combat the ...

First came free online courses. Now come — with a few conditions — free online textbooks. Coursera, a provider of massive open online courses, or MOOCs, from dozens of universities, announced ...

Calling online textbooks a boon to student achievement and school district coffers, state Education Secretary Glen Thomas announced Tuesday that 10 free digital high school math and science texts are ...

The University of the Cumberlands, the liberal arts university that cut tuition in half last year, is planning another bold cost-cutting move for its students next year. It will provide 1,800 ...

Book publishers that bundle online access codes with college textbooks are thwarting attempts to bring down the price of the books, which can cost as much as $1,200 per academic year, a student ...

Textbooks, those long-entrenched staples of classrooms, could soon be pushed from their place of prominence by a high-tech alternative: online lessons that can be downloaded, customized and updated — ...